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Belchamp Walter, Essex

Historical Description

Belchamp-Walter, a parish in Essex, on a small affluent of the river Stour, 4 miles W of Sudbury station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Sudbury, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2194; population, 514. Belchamp Hall is the seat of the Raymonds, and contains an interesting collection of pictures. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Bulmer, in the diocese of St Albans. The church is a neat high edifice, and contains tombs of the Raymonds. It dates from the Perpendicular period, and the tower contains a very fine peal of 8 bells.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyEssex 
Ecclesiastical parishBelchamp-Walter St. Mary 
HundredHinckford 
Poor Law unionSudbury 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Churches

Church of England

St Mary the Virgin (parish church)

The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a building of stone, chiefly in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles (with the exception of the north wall of the chancel, which is Norman) and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 8 bells: the font is Norman and there are several stained windows: in the chancel is a monument of white and grey marble to various members of the Raymond family, including John Raymond esq. purchaser of the estate, buried here 27 June, 1635; and his wife, 6 December, 1652; Oliver Raymond esq. M.P. for Essex in the Long Parliament, buried 25 March, 1679, and St. Clere Raymond esq. buried 25 October, l690; there is also, beneath a finely-carved canopy of the Decorated period above, the tomb of Sir John Boutetort: the reredos of mosaic work was erected at the expense of the Rev. J. M. St. Clere Raymond M.A. rector of Belchamp Walter 1859-62, by whom also the church was restored in 1860, at a cost of £1,400: there are 276 sittings.


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Belchamp Walter from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Essex is available to browse.

The Essex pages from the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 is online.


Maps

Online maps of Belchamp Walter are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online:

DistrictBraintree
CountyEssex
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtCO10
Post TownSudbury

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